Today Meets Yesterday

Time travel: A pictogram journey through now and then

In this third installment in her pictogram series for TASCHEN, leading graphic designer Yang Liu bringsthe way we were face to face with the way we are. Hot on the heels of the bestsellingMan meets Woman and East meets West, Today meets Yesterday deploys the samevivid pictogram pairings to explore the transformations, and the challenges, of our ever-evolving world.

Liu has made her name with a combination of graphic precision and incisive observation of behavior patterns. InToday meets Yesterday, her eye for tastes and trends takes ambitious scope, extending through time to distill fundamentalshifts in society over the past 100 years. With an eye on everything from geopolitics to concentration patterns, Liu’s panorama incorporates thedetails of daily experience as much as the momentous happenings in history.

Along the way, we encounter the tussle between communism and capitalism, past and present global dangers, our interaction with the environment, and thewholesale impact of technology on our ways of ways of living, learning, and loving. Through Facebook, food waste, collectivism, and much more,Today meets Yesterday casts the familiar situation in a crisp and discerning light, bringing fresh awareness, as well as some ironies, to who we are and where we came from.